More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these ...

Contradictory to what is advocated for in recent article by U.S. Forest Service research fellow Clare E. Boerigter about protecting wilderness by purposefully “tending it,” the best approach to the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But in a time when lands are experiencing the effects of climate change and people are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Clare E. Boerigter, United States Forest Service (THE CONVERSATION) More than 110 ...